Play this thing online here
Now if I could just map a midi keyboard…

Recently I ran into a musical called ‘The Phantom of the Paradise’. Truly a musical-opera. It was made in 1974 by Brain de Palma, and was overshadowed by “the Rocky Horror Picture show” I had absolutely no hopes for the movie, but as it progressed I heard some great music going on. And that paradise-owner was played by Paul Williams. Now where did I hear that name before? That’s right: he was the composer of the carpenters’ “we’ve only just begun”, and more important to me: all the songs in the muppet movie. Remember Kermit singing “the rainbow connection”?
Good times.
***takes a very deep bow to Paul Williams ***

here’s the opening-track from the Phantom of the Paradise, sung by the Juicy Fruits:

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The band Caninus has the best frontmen after Jake and Elwood blues: 2 pitbulls. Finally people can enjoy the music called grindcore properly. It makes you think why aren’t there more bands like this? Worldwide thousands of thrash/grindcore/hardcore bands have human barkers. Why not go for the real thing like Caninus?

Do check out there myspace, and listen to this demo 

Again no manic Monday…
I just don’t feel like doing a rush-job or half a song anymore.

But… It’s St Patrick’s day, and I was working on a paddy-special when I ran into this.
No way I can top this:

The Swedish Chef, Animal and Beaker singing ‘Danny Boy’

Here’s an idea. For the 1978 Sci-Fi film awards we’ll have William Shatner recite the lyrics to ‘Rocket Man’. We’ll have music so the listener can get a sense of where we are in the song.
Yes, that’s a good idea right? Wrong!

Peter Sellers did a similar thing for the Beatles in ‘Seller Sings the Beatles’, the only difference is this: Sellers was a comedian and he knew the result would be funny.

Listen to Peter Sellers’ version of a hard days night right here

Shatner sings ‘Rocketman’

In 1962 with all the space-rage the Swedish band ‘the Spotnicks’ released their single ‘Rocket Man’. They already knew how to do a corny choreography, but doing that wearing suits like this just tops it.

60s music AND golden stretch trousers. This movie is too good to be true!

Yesterdays National Geographic’s photo of the day was a picture of an extremely rare type of fruit. It grows in St. Louis Missouri and I can spot all you nature-lovers sitting upright already.
In case of a removal I copied the picture right here.

Yes, it’s called a Chuck Berry.

Sorry for the bad pun, but seeing this picture on the National Geographic site I just had to do this.